FRED “The Duck Slayer” Drasner, who recently was eased out as co-publisher of the Daily News and U.S. News & World Report, is selling the farm that helped spawn his nickname.

Drasner has put his 99-acre farm in Dutchess County on the block, seeking $6.5 million for the estate, the centerpiece of which is a meticulously renovated 18th century farmhouse. Drasner got his nickname years ago when he blasted a duck with shotgun pellets while a child’s birthday party was in progress.

The estate is known by the tongue-in-cheek name the Cantagree Farm – something Drasner picked himself. The estate is billed as being in Millbrook, but in reality is in slightly less posh Stamfordville, N.Y.

“When I was married to my ex-wife, we couldn’t agree on anything, so I named my club accordingly,” he said in a June 2003 spread on the home in the Conde Nast glossy Architectural Digest.

The estate also has old world gardens and a state of the art theater, art deco fixtures, a swimming pool, a caretaker’s house, a separate regulation-size racquetball court and a Palladian style stone built conservatory.

Of course, the estate also has a duck pond.

The farm also boasts a trio of dromedaries, but there is no word on whether they stay put. Drasner obtained them when they were just babies.

“A guy from a petting zoo gave them to me,” Drasner told Arch Digest. “I just forgot they grow up to be 2,000-lb. animals.”

The property also features a restored barn that was painstakingly moved from Pennsylvania Dutch country and rebuilt on the Duell Road estate.

Drasner also managed to get a helipad installed on the farm after battling with locals who objected.

But one realtor said that while the landing field will stay, permission to use it does not automatically transfer to a new owner.

The new owner must seek local and federal approval, the realtor said.

Drasner also has a lot of folksy touches, including a giant wooden rooster standing in a room in a guest house.

It was said to be an original from the old Luna Park carousel ride in Coney Island, where Drasner used to go with his mother when he was a kid in Brooklyn.

Drasner said he spent about 12 years renovating the property – and locals said he did a tremendous job. Asked when he expected to finish, he told Architectural Digest, “Oh I’ll never be finished. I’m in the 12th year of a 100-year project.”

But something apparently changed for Drasner. His name was removed from the Daily News and U.S. News mastheads recently amid talk that he had had a major falling out with longtime partner Mort Zuckerman.

In announcing his departure in the paper – one day after his name was removed from the masthead – a spokeswoman said Drasner was becoming a consultant because of an increasing number of outside business interests. There was no mention of what the new outside interests were and Drasner, once the most talkative of executives, has been unreachable in recent weeks.

For the last several years, Drasner has owned about 8 percent of the Washington Redskins football team that is controlled by Daniel Snyder.

Separately, Snyder recently spent about $34.5 million to buy a stake in the struggling Six Flags Theme Park Inc. chain through a new company called Red Zone LLC.

But there is apparently no danger of Fred Drasner, who once famously starred in TV ads for the Daily News, making a comeback as the dancing “Mr. Six” of Six Flags fame.

According to a spokesman for Snyder, “Fred is a minority shareholder in the Washington Redskins and has no involvement in Red Zone.”

Drasner could not be reached for comment. A call to the Waldorf Astoria Towers were he was a permanent guest revealed Drasner had checked out.

Rumors are swirling that he is looking for property in the Miami area and in Italy. He recently wed for the third time this past June in Venice, Italy.

Meanwhile, things are not getting easier on the editorial side for Daily News owner Mort Zuckerman. Martin Dunn, the editorial director of the Daily News, has failed again in his bid to find someone to run the day-to-day operations of Zuckerman’s embattled paper.

Dunn had made a concerted effort to get Wendell Jamieson, an assistant metro editor at the New York Times to return to the News. Jamieson edited The Times’ “Portraits of Grief” section after 9/11.

There were said to be serious negotiations, but ultimately, nothing came to pass.

“I’m staying at the New York Times,” Jamieson told Media Ink this week. “I love working here.” Of course, some sources speculate that the love was helped by a hefty pay hike to counter the approach by Dunn.

“Is the idea of being editor-in-chief of the Daily News appealing? Of course it is to anyone who loves New York and loves newspapers,” he told Media Ink. “Was I offered the editor-in-chief job? No I was not.”

And a Daily News spokesman said of Dunn, “He’s had many conversations with Wendell about newspapers, but he has not made an offer nor spoken about a specific job.”

But sources say that was because Zuckerman, the billionaire owner who loves to pinch pennies when it comes to journalists, did not want to pay another giant Ed Kosner-style package.

Kosner was a big-ticket editor-in-chief, but he was squeezed out last year just before Dunn arrived as editorial director.

Dunn has been hands-on, but would rather turn the day-to-day aggravation over to someone else.

Jameison, however, did not have the graphics and layout experience. So Dunn spoke with Jamieson and dangled the chance to run the news side of the paper without the actual title of top banana. He would have been called news editorial director or executive editor or something along those lines, say insiders.